Saturday, May 10, 2014

Kamarupa Pithas

Kamarupa Pithas or Kamrup Piths are ancient pithas or geographical divisions of Kamarupa. Yogini Tantra gives the boundaries of  four pithas, the same work which gives boundaries of ancient Kamrup kingdom as well.

Number of Pithas

Kamarupa was divided in four Pithas namely (i) Ratnapitha, the area from the river Karatoya to the river Sonkosh, (ii) Kamapitha, from Sonakosh to the river Rupali, (iii) Swarnapitha, from the river Rupali to the Bharali river and (iv) Saumarapitha between the Bhairavi and the Dikrang river.